The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-03
sweethearts of the Anarchists.

The condemned Chicago Anarchists have
now and then happy hour The shadow
of the gallows does not chase all smiles from
their faces. Although they are apprehen-
sive that the hangman is already trying his
hand at shaping the moose that is to encircle
their necks, they seem to remember that
long faces and heavy hearts will not assist
them to escape the punishment which
awaits them.
Spies receives frequent calls from the
handsome and intelligent woman who calls
herself his wife, but who holds that relation
to him only in so far Dis a proxy marriage
can establish it.
The impression is quite general that Nina
Van Zandt, the proxy wife, met Spies
the first time at the Jail. This, it seems, is
a mistake. They had known each other a
long time before the Haymarket tragedy,
and were acknowledged lovers They would
have been married before Spies got into his
present trouble, so Nina'S mother SAYS, if
Spies had not been so poor. 1t is somewhat
remarkable, if the above statement is true,
that they should have married when Spies
was much poorer, and with every prospect
of dying the death of a felon
Anarchist Lingg appears to be in luck.
Two girls have fallen in love with him. and
he admires both so much that if by any
rare good fortune he should secure a par
don, or escape, through some legal techni-
cality, all penalty for his crime, he wouldn't
know which one OF them to marry. The
favorite of the two is a singularlv bright
and pretty girl, whose manners are
as modest as her face is attractive She
visits the Jail quite often, and is permitted
to talk with Lingg as long as she cares to.
The other is a handsome girl, and honest
apparently but rather loud in hes~style of
conversation. She keeps Lingg and his fell
low prisoners in good humor while she re-
mains, and she is, therefore, welcomed with
smiles and dismissed with regrets.
1t is rather curious that young, pretty
and respectable women should show so
much sympathy for the Anarchists The
experience of jailers appears to be, however,
that whenever there is a condemned muir
derer one or more women can always be
found to sympathize with him and to devote
themselves to making him comfortable.
When a murderer is confined in u Jail in
New York it takes pretty much all of the
time of one man, according TO the local
prints, to exhibit him to curious and sympa-
thetic women, The Anarchists may expect
an increase in the number of their sweet
hearts as they approach nearer the gallows
Most Of the newspapers printed by color
ed men are urging opposition by the colored
voters to Col. Fred Grant in his race for
Secretary of State of New York, particu-
larly the freeman, edited by Thomas For
tune. They claim that when a cadet at
West Point he was in full sympathy with
the prevailing prejudice at that institution
against colored Cadet Smith which finally
forced him out of the school Col Grant
was selected by his party on account of no
special fitness, but only because his name
would attract votes. 1t seems now that he
can repel as well as attract. The opposition
of colored voters may decide the election.
A Kentucky mute, undoubtedly guilty
of n most atrocious murder, has just been
acquitted by Il jury on account of
his misfortune. Many man whose tongue
has gotten him into trouble will look on this
fellow with degree of envy.